IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71055 accession number: C.61-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 17 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, coated in white glaze painted with lustre. Shape: fluted cylindrical body, carinated at the shoulder ascending onto a collared neck with bead rim and rectangular spout. Sits on a low foot ring; a strap handle is attached to the neck and shoulder. Exterior: on the neck and spout a frieze of palmette leaves is enclosed by concentric lustre bands and a cable pattern. On the shoulder, painted in lustre, an inscription is surrounded by scrolls, while on the upper body another inscription is incised through a lustre band. On the body vertical panels are filled, alternately, with a lustre inscription or lustre bands inscribed with palmette leaves. The handle is decorated with a cable pattern and flanked by solid panels, both painted in lustre. Glaze terminates unevenly on the exterior foot ring. Interior: the rim is painted with a band of lustre, glaze covers the surface to the upper neck. object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre title: ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found at Gurgan LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ades family collection creditline: Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71055 TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, coated in white glaze painted with lustre moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1200 - 1220 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1220 culture: 13th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 35 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1405 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- Gurgan Faiences Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD. An Exhibition arranged by the Islamic Art Circle and held at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1 October to 30 November The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Persian Lustre Ware Pottery and Metal Shapes in Persia in the 12th and 13th Centuries The Survival of Precious and Base Metal Objects from the Medieval Islamic World Bronze Shapes in Iranian Ceramics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution ---